Some women have a thing for shoes; I have a thing for bracelets. I love wearing them. I love looking at them. I love the sound they make as they jostle around on the wrist. Wearing them all the time is impractical for me because I work with my hands so often, but when I […]

Nora Ephron died yesterday. She will be remembered an accomplished author, filmmaker, mother, feminist, activist, and as someone who lead the sort of kickass life we all dream about. And while her legacy is grand by any standards, I will always remember her as the lady who once told me I had “a great laugh”– […]

What did I come across duct taped to a tree on my walk home yesterday? A flier* for a missing unicorn named Yolanda. Apparently she is a sassy thing with a love of room-temperature pigs in a blanket. Guys, it isn’t everyday that a community loses a unicorn; let us unite together in this time […]

My mosquito situation is unreal. I’m one of those people they describe as having sweet blood (which is just a fancy way of saying bug magnet) and as the result of this, citronella candles and I are best buds. Even better; citronella candles in super cute patriotic outfits. Boom!

What ever happened to the days when women were praised for possessing things like wide hips and a wicked embroidery sampler? Ladies, we need to unite and bring these virtues back in vogue! Who is with me? Yesss! Who is too lazy to learn embroidery and is fine with buying badass samplers online? Double yesss! […]

Miss Lolabelle is doing her tummy dance all day long — a sure sign of hot weather. Poor thing spends the winter clinging to warm spots, then summer comes and she struggles to let go of her heat under all that fur. Golly, it must be hard to be that beautiful. Lola isn’t the only […]

Once in a while I’ll get an email from someone asking where I put all the stuff I use to make the craft projects that appear on this blog. And since I openly admit to being a slob with some serious hoarding tendencies, I can’t blame folks for being curious to see what things look […]

I like to paint. You wouldn’t know it by the things I post on this blog, but I do. A lot. I like to paint big sloppy slabs of color layered onto canvases thick as peanut butter. It’s cathartic. The only downer is they take forever to dry. Sometimes weeks. And regardless of where I […]

Mrs. Roper just called. She wants her puka shell plant hanger back. Sorry Mrs. Roper: Finders keepers, losers weepers. IT’S MINE. This weekend, while Mrs. Roper was getting busy with Mr. Roper, Jack, Janet and Chrissy down at the Regale Beagle, I was rummaging through a roadside junk shop and discovering all manners of treasure, […]

Today is Father’s Day. This means a lot of things to a lot of people. To me, it means spending part of my day reading letters. A giant tub of my father’s letters. Without fail, my father wrote me a letter every day from when I was age thirteen to the time he died when […]